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Armenia Embraces Syrians, Warily

More than six thousand Christian Armenians from Syria have poured into Armenia in recent months, escaping the civil war back home. WSJ's Joe Parkinson reports from Yerevan.

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Joe Parkinson

Dec. 4, 2012 7:17 p.m. ET

YEREVAN, Armenia—Syria's war, which has already sparked refugee crises just across its border in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, is also bringing strains to Armenia, a Christian country hundreds of miles away.

Ethnic Armenians fleeing primarily from Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub and a major battleground in its civil war, have found an unlikely meeting point in Armenia's capital, on a dusty side street bracketed by Soviet-era apartment blocks. Buzzing with machinery, and heavy with the smell of motor oil, Glinkai Street...